Method of preparing and applying tabbed wrappers



Oct. 13, 1931. E, G, RUDE- 1,827,334

METHOD OF PREPARING AND APPLYING TABBED WRAPPERS Filed July 20, 1928 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 IINVENTOR.

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METHOD OF PREPARING AND APPLYING TABBED WRAPPERS Filed July 20, 1928 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 I N V EN TOR.

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E. G. RIDER. 1,827,334

METHOD OF PREPARING AND APPLYING TABBED WRAPPERS Oct. 13, 1931.

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ATTORNEY.

Filed July 20. 1928 Patented Oct. 13, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ERNEST G. RIDER, OE PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR T STOKES AND SMITH COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENN- SYLVANIA METHOD OF PREPARING AND APPLYING TABBED WRAPPERS Application filed July 20, 1928. Serial No. 294,088.

My invention relates to the art of applying to cartons, containers, and particularly to boxes, and especiallyto unstayed boxes, individual wrappers provided with reinforcing or staying elements or tabs.

In accordance with my invention, there is adhesively applied to the box-engaging surface of a one-piece or composite wrapper, before, during, or after application of adhesive thereto, reinforcing elements or tabs 7 extending across or bridging the corner notches of the wrapper, and adhesive is ap plied to the box-engaging surfaces of the tabs,

before, during, or after their application to the wrapper.

Further in accordance with myinvention, and preferably, before the coatings upon the wrapper and tabs dry or set, the tabbed wrap- I per is applied to a container, carton, or box, and especially to an unstayed box blank for sin'mltaneously wrapping and staying it.

My invention resides in the tabbed wrapper. in its several forms, hereinafter described and claimed, the methods of producing or preparing it, and of its application to a box.

or the like, particularly an unstayed box blank, as hereinafter described and claimed.

For an illustration of some of :the various forms of and modes of practicing my invention. reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a stack of uncoated wrappers.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a wrapper in a later stage inwhich it is coated with adhesive.

Fig. 3 is a perspective View of 'a wrapper in a later state in which there are applied thereto tabs whose b0x-engaging faces are uncoated.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a tabbed wrapper in a later stage in which the boxengaging faces of the tabs are coated.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the tabbed the box-wrapping and staying operation.

Fig. 9 is a perspective view of a stack of uncoated wrappers.

Fig. 10 is a perspective view of the uncoated wrapper in a later stage in which there are applied thereto tabs whose box-engaging faces are uncoated.

Fig. 11 isa perspective view of tabbed wrapper in a later stage in which the boxengaging faces of the tabs and wrapper are coated with adhesive.

Fig. 12 is a perspective view of a modified forni of tabbed wrapper.

Fig. 13 is a perspective view of stacks of wrapper components.

Fig. 14 illustrates in a later stage the application of adhesive to wrapper components. Fig. 15 represents a composite wrapper.

Fig. 16 represents a composite wrapper having its box-engaging faces coated with adhesive.

Fig. 17 is a perspective view in a later stage of a composite wrapper having adhesivecoated'tabs applied thereto.

Fig. 18 illustrates a modified form of I composite wrapper having thereon tabs whose box-engaging faces are uncoated.

Fig. 211s a perspective view of a tabbed,

composite wrapper in a later stage in which the box-engaging faces of the tabs are coated. Fig. 22 is a perspective view of the tabbed, composite wrapper of the preceding figure in register with an unstayed box block, the

form block structure of a Wrapping machine being indicated in dotted lines.

Fig. 23 represents a composite wrapper to which is applied a modified form of reinforcing elements, whose box-engaging surfaces are uncoated.

Fig. 24 represents the modified tabbed, composite wrapper in a later stage in which the box-engaging surfaces of the reinforcing elements are coated with adhesive.

Fig. 25 is a perspective view of the modified tabbed, composite wrapper of Fig. 24 in register with an unstayed box-blank, the form block structure of a wrapping machine being indicated in dotted lines.

Fig. 26 is a plan view illustrative of boxforming components. utilizable for forming a box.

Fig. 27 is a plan view of a one-piece wrapper having tabs applied thereto, the boX engaging faces of the wrapper and tabs being coated with adhesive.

Figs. 28 and 29 are respectively, perspective views of three and four-piece composite wrappers having tabs applied thereto.

Fig. 30 is a plan view of the box-forming components in position and in registering relation with a tabbed wrapper.

'Figs. 31 to inclusive, represent, respectively, in perspective, the successive stages of the box-forming, box-wram'iing and staying operatlon.

In a method of simultaneously wrapping and staying a box hithertofore employed, a tabbed wrapper of the general character ii-- lustrated in Stokes Patent 845,205, involving the securing of reinforcing elements or tabs by adhesive to a wrapper in such regions that the corners of a box to which the wrapper is applied, has been employed. t is characteristic of my invention, that the reinforcing elements or tabs extend across the corner notches of the wrapper so that the wrapped box is not only reinforced at the junction of the side and end walls, as previously realized by the aforesaid method, but it is also strengthened at the corner of the box-formed by the conjunction of the bottom of the box with the end and side walls, respectively. The tabbed wrapper is applied to the box preferably while the adhesive securing the tabs to the wrapper is unset to permit folding of the tabs, as hereinafter described, during the wrapping and staying operation.

My invention is further of advantage in that a machine, such as for example, disclosed in Nitsch et al. application, Serial No. 69,249, filed Nov. 16, 1925, or in Federwitz et al. application Serial No. 40,769, filed July 1, 1925, or Stokes application Serial No. 147,- 405, filed November 10, 1926, or Rider application Serial No. 227,144, filed October 19, 1927, or Rider application Serial No. 294,436, filed July 21, 1928, can be utilized with little or no change in construction.

My invention comprehends the application of tabs, of paper, cloth, or other suitable material, including equivalent reinforcing elements, strips, or sheets, to individual onepiece or composite wrappers, or labels and the like, and the application of the tabbed wrappers, preferably prior to the setting, drying or hardening of the adhesive securing the. tabs to the wrapper, to boxes of paper, pasteboard, or other material, inciuding open and closed cartons, containers or boxes, prcviously formed or stayed, and especially unstayed boxes or boxblanks.

Fig. 1 represents a stack of one-piece, individual, notched or corner-cut wrappers of any suitable form, each comprising, for example, the end sections S1 and the side sections or panels S2, the latter comprising the turn-in flaps I. Each wrapper is first coated with adhesive, as glue, on the box-era gaging surface, yielding as indicated in Fig. 2, a coated Wrapper We, the application of the adhesive being made while the wrapper is still in the stack, Fig. 1, or, and preferably, after removal from the stack.

Thereafter, as indicated in Fig. 3, one or more tabs T, of any suitable material, of any suitable form and size, which may, as indicated, be severed from ribbon or rolls R needed, is or are applied to the coated surface of the wrapper to connect the end sec tions S, and respective, adjacent sidev sections S by extending across or bridging at least a substantial part of the corner notches between them. The tabs T are preferably of suiiicient width to engage the bottom panel or section B of the wrapper. To recapitu.

late, specifically and preferablv, the tabs are applied to portions of the coat-ed wrapper o destined to come into engagement with the regions of the side, end and bottom walls of the box adjacent the corner to be reiir forced or stayed. In the example described, both sides of the tabs T are free of adhesive before their application to the wrapper, the adhesive coating of wrapper V0 serving to secure them. It will be understood. hon ever, that either or both surfaces of the tabs may be coated with adhesive before application to the Wrapper, or that the wrapper and tabs may be substantially simultaneously coated as in the aforesaid Rider applications.

After the tabs have been so applied to the previously coated wrapper 1V0, the box-engaging surfaces of the tabs are coated with adhesive, yielding, as indicated in Fig. 4, a coated wrapper WVc with, adhering coated tabs Tc.

The tabbed wrapper has now been prepared for application to a box, and such ap plication is preferably made promptly, while coated wrapper V0 and its coated tabs 'lc are soft and pliable, and before the adhesive coatings have dried, hardened, or set. It will be understood, however, that the prepared wrapper may, as after setting of the adhesive, be stored for subsequent use, the adhesive coatings being reactivated by a suitable agent or agents. as moisture, heat, etc.

The box or unstayed box blank is then brought into register with the tabbed wrapper, and the coated faces of the wrappe and tabs are brought into contact with the box. faces, and in the case of an unstayed box blank, it is simultaneously brought to box form, wrapped and reinforced or stayed. During the turning in of each of end flaps I, as is most clearly shown in Fig. 6a, a portion of the tab adhering to the end panel S1 is pulled out of engagement therewith. Thereafter as the end panel is bent upwardly to position, that portion of the tab pulled out of engagement with the end panel and that corner and the side and end panels S2 and S1, respectively.

All the foregoing operations may be performed manually. Preferably, however, they will be performed by automatic mechanism. For example, the stack of wrappers W, Fig. 1, may be operated upon in an automatic adhesive-applying machine, such as for example, as disclosed in the aforesaid Nitsch at al. application Serial No. 69249, or in the adhesive-applying unit G of the aforesaid Federwitz and Bailey application Serial No. 40,7 69, or of the aforesaid Rider applications. The coated wrappers We may then be tabbed by any suitable mechanism, including such, for example, as of the character disclosed in the aforesaid Letters Patent No. 1,060,026, or 1.451.782, or Federwitz et al. application Serial No. 40,769. Alternatively the tabs may be coated and applied to the wrappers while the latter are being coated with adhesive by-mechanism such as, for example, that shown in the aforesaid Rider applications.

The tabbed wrappers may then be applied -to the boxes or unstayed box blanks in any 5 and comprising the'form blocks F and F operated as well understood in suitable timed relation by the usual rods, 7, f and f. Figs. 6 to 8, inclusive, illustrate the successive stages, Fig. 8, showing the'finished article, a wrapped and stayed box U1. d

A modification of my method of preparing a tabbed blank is illustrated in Figs. 9 to 11 inclusive. Fig. 9 represents a stack of one-piece, individual, notched or corner-cut wrappers W of any suitable form or comprising, for example, the end sections S1 and the side sections of panels S2, the latter comprising the turn-in flaps I. To each wrapper while on the stack or after removal .there-' from, tabs T, coated on their wrapper-engaging surfaces, are applied to the uncoated wrapper, yielding as indicated in Fig. 2 a one-piece tabbed wrapper. It will be understood that as an alternative adhesive may be applied to the wrapper in the regions with which the tabs come in contact therewith. As in the previous modification, the tabs are applied to extend across the corner notches.

Thereafter as indicatedin Fig. 11, the box engaging surfaces of the tabs and wrapper are coated with adhesive, yielding as indicated in Fig. 11, a coated wrapper We with adhering coated tabs T0.

with a box or box blank and applied thereto as above described and as shown in Figs. 5 to 8 inclusive.

, As shown in Fig. 12, the tabs To mayextend for a considerable distance, beyond the The wrapper is thereafter brought in registering relation is or may be prepared by either of the methods previously described and is adapted to be applied to a box or box blank as shown in Figs. 5 to 8 inclusive.

A further modification of my method of preparing a tabbed composite wrapper is illustrated in Figs. 13 to 17 inclusive. Referring to the drawings, Fig. 13 shows the wrapper side panel components C1, and end panel components E1 in stacks. Either while in or upon their stacks, or after removal to a dif ferent position, the several components are brought into a relation, such, for example, as indicated in Fig. 14 to certain of the components, as the end'panel elements E1, adhesive is applied in spots or locally as indicated at a. Thereafterthe side panel components are brought into engagement with the end panel components E1, as indicated in Fig. 15, showing the components secured to each other by adhesive to form a composite wrapper W. Thereafter the box engaging face of the composite wrapper or of the components, is coated with glue or equivalent adhesive to form the coated composite wrapper We indicated in Fig. 4.

Alternatively, the several components may have their box engaging faces coated with adhesive and then attached to each other to form a composite wrapper, again of the character shown in Fig. 16.

Tabs T0 are then applied and coated in any of the sequences above described, bridging the corner notches, and preferably terminating flush with the inner edges of the side panels as indicated in Fig. 17. Hithertofore the areas of engagement between the end and side panels of the composite wrappers were limited to the regions of locally applied adhesive. In the wrapper described and as shown in Fig. 17, the tabs Tc having substantial areas in engagement with adjacent side and end panels, effectively strengthen the union between them to comprise a composite wrapper, the component elements of which are less subject to displacement during transportation of the wrapper, or its application to a box or equivalent. The box engaging faces of the tabs may be, as above described, coated with adhesive before, during or after their application to the wrapper. The tabs To may, instead of terminating flush with the inner edges of the side wall of components Cl, extend substantially completely across the wrapper to comprise a tabbed composite wrapper possessing strength greater even than that of Fig. 17.

The tabbed composite wrapper has now been prepared for application to the box, and such application is preferably made substantially immediately while the adhesive coatings upon the wrapper \Va and tabs T 0 are unset. The box or unstayed box blank is then brought into register with the tabbed composite wrapper, and the coated faces of the wrapper and tabs brought into engagement with the box faces, as has been more specifically described.

To the composite adhetively coated wrap-.

brought into registering engagement with a box or box blank and applied thereto to simultaneously wrap and stay the box as has hithertofore been described.

To the composite coated wrapper of Fig. 16, there may be applied the uncoated tab strips T extending substantially completely across the wrapper and bridging a pair of corner notches, the box engaging surfaces of the tabs being thereafter coated to yield, as shown in Fig. 24, a tabbed composite wrapper similar to Fig. 18. Thereafter the tabbed composite wrapper, preferably while all the adhesive coatings are still moist, is brought into registering engagement with a box or equivalent and applied thereto to simultaneously' wrap and stay the box.

The box blanks previously described, to which the wrappers have been applied, have been one-piece blanks, having cutout corners. In Figs. 26 to 35 there is illustrated the method of applying the tabbed wrappers previously described to a composite box blank, as of the destined to form a generally rectangular box after proper manipulation and assembly. As shown, there is provided a main box-forming component A, preferably scored or creased as indicated by the two parallel lines d, the scored portions constituting opposite boundaries of a generally rectangular section b forming, upon completion of the box, one face thereof, as the bottom. Lying respectively outwardly of the scored portions of box-forming component A, aforesaid, are the substantially duplicate sections 8 forming, upon completion of the box, opposite faces thereof, as the two sides. The substantially duplicate box-forming components, sections or elements 6, shown in Fig. 26 as lying at each end of box-forming component A, during the forming and wrapping operation hereinafter described, are associated with and connected or secured to said component A in angular relation with their edges in registering, and specifically, abutting relation, for forming, upon completion of the box, opposite faces thereof, as the two ends.

In Fig. 27 there is illustrated a one-piece tabbed wrapper having adhesive applied to the wrapper engaging faces of the tabs and wrapper. The wrapper is similar to that shown in Fig. 12 having tabs which extend substantially across the ends of the wrapper bridging the corner notches between the end flaps I and the ends E. In Fig. 28 there is illustrated a three-piece tabbed composite wrapper, the composite wrapper being generally ofthe character disclosed and described in the aforesaid Stokes Patent 1,625; 577, with tabs applied thereto preferably as shown extending substantially across the entire width of the wrapper and bridging the corner notches between the'end flaps I and the ends E. The tabs strengthen the vertical portion of the formed box, the junctions between the bottom, end and side walls respectively, and additionally strengthen the composite wrapper during transportation and subsequent application to the box by effectively strengthening the connection between the side panels Cl and the common component D to which they are adhesively secured in a suitable manner. The common component D comprises, as indicated, the central portion B destined to form a covering for the bottom of the box, and the end sections or panels E, destined to cover the end walls of the box. In Fi there is shown a four-piece composite wrapper similar to and produced in the same manner as the wrappers shown in Figs. 18 or 24.

The box-forming components A and e, e are brought to box simulating position before or during a wrapping operation, during which a tabbed. coated wrapper We of shown in Fig. 30, betweenbox-forming comside thereof. Further the width of comp0'.

ponent A and the individual wrapper W0. for example, of Fig. 27, in such manner that bottom section b and side sections 8 of said component A, respectively, engage and adhere to bottom section B and end sections E1 of the wrapper. As indicated in Fig. 30, the length of the box-forming component-A is such that the component extends from the apexes of the notches on one side of the wrap-, per to the apexes of the notches on the other ncnt A is less than the width of the wrapper and the exposed sections are tucked around the edges of the box as previously mentioned. When wrapper W0 is reinforced with tabs 'l extending across substantially the entire width of the wrapper We, during the wrapping operation, the central portionof the tab strengthens the unions between the ends and bottom of the box as comprised by the separate components 6 and section b of component A, and the end portions of the tabs strengthen the union between the end and side walls of the box as comprised by the components c and the sections 8 of the component A.

'At the next stage in the operation, subsequent to Fig. 30, a form block or equivalent structure may be so placed as to overlie section 7) of the component- A, the base of the form block corresponding in size to section 7). and of a type corresponding generally with the distance across either section .9 of box-forming component- A, along a line drawn at rightangles to the scored linesd,

thereof.

Assuming that the structure shown in Fig. is in a horizontal positionowith the boxforming component A, overlying wrapper \V sections a of said component. the portions 9 of wrapper W0 adhering thereto and outwardly positioned tabs T are bent upwardly into vertical positions. the scored or creased construction of element A readily permitting'this action.

At the next. stage n. the assembling operation box-forming components (2 are brought to vertical positions and suitably held at each:

end oi. and in engagement with, the form block, all the box-forming components being then in box-simulating position as shown in Fig. 31.

. Thereafter, the now vertical corner lap sections I of wrapper We are folded inwardly into engagement with the box-forming components 6. During this operation, and as has been above described in connection with Fig. 6a, the portions of the tabs secured to the end panels E of the wrapper adjacent the corner notches, are pulled out of engagement with the end panels. End wall sections E of wrapper VVo are now folded upwardly into engagement with box-forming components 6 and the adhering corner lap sections I already folded into engagement therewith. During the turning-in of each of the end flaps, as has been previously described, the portion of each tab pulled out of engagement with the respective end panel and the contiguous por-" tion bridging the corner notch of the" wrapper, are folded against the end flaps substantially in the form of a small triangle.

Finally the portions of the wrapper protruding above the upper edges of the now vertical box-forming walls are folded inwardly, as in Fig. 34, and thereafter downwardly and into adhering engagement with the interior surfaces of the walls to form the completed box illustrated in Fig. 35.

Although certain of the foregoing description is limited tothe formation of a box from a specified number of components, sections or elements, it shall be understood that my invention comprehends the utilization of a greater or smaller number. Further, it shall be understood that my invention also comprehends the manipulation, and assembly of a desired number of box-forming components in other ways specifically different from the corresponding disclosure of this application.

What I claim is:

1. A tabbed wrapper comprising a wrapper having turn in flaps, and tabs which arcadhesively secured to and connect tur'n in flaps to adjacent wrapper sections. bridging the gaps between said flaps and said sections formed by the associated corner notches.

2. A tabbed wrapper comprising a coinp'osite wrapper of adhesivelv attached components. and tabs additionally to attach ad jacent components. j

3. A tabbed wrapper comprising a composite wrapper of adhesively attached components, and tabs connected to adjacent components and bridging the corner notches therebetween,

4. A tabbed wrapper comprising a wrapper of adhesivelv attached components. and tabs, each of which connects a series. of said components and reinforces their union.

' 5. A tabbed wrapper comprising a wrapper formed of several components having small areas of adhesive contact with each other,

secured to adjacent components.

III

6. A tabbed wrapper comprising a wrapper formed of several components having small areas of contact with each other,,and tabs, each overlying certain of said areas and adhesively secured to a series of said components.

7. A tabbed wrapper comprising a wrapper formed of several components having small areas of contact with each other, and tabs, each overlying an area of contact between adjacent components and bridging the corner notch therebetween, adhesively secured to the box-engaging face of the composite wrapper.

8. The method of preparing a tabbed composite wrapper which comprises, attaching wrapper components to each other by adhesive, and applying tabs additionally to con nect adjacent components and to bridge the corner notch formed therebetween.

9. The method of preparing a tabbed composite wrapper which comprises. attaching wrapper components to each other by adhesive, and applying tabs, each of which additionally connects at least two of said components and bridges one or more corner notches of said wrapper.

10. A tabbed wrapper comprising a composite wrapper formed by adhesively attached wrapper components, and tabs extending across the corner notches thereof adhesively secured thereto, the adhesive securing said components, and the adhesive securing said tabs -being simultaneously fluid.

11. A tabbed wrapper comprising a composite wrapper by adhesively attached wrapper components, tabs extending across the corner notches thereof a-dhesively secured thereto, and adhesive coatings on the box-engaging faces of said wrapper and of said tabs, said adhesive coatings, the adhesive securing said components, and the adhesive securing said tabs being simultaneously fluid in preparation for application to a box.

12. The method of preparing a composite wrapper and applying it to an unstayed box, which comprises, in either sequence, the steps of adhesively coating the box-engaging faces of the wrapper elements, adhesively attaching the wrapper elements to form a composite wrapper, in either sequence, or simultaneously, the steps of applying tabs to the composite wrapper across the corner notches thereof, coating the box-engaging faces of the tabs, and thereafter before setting of the adhesive, applying the wrapper and tabs to an unstayed box, simultaneously to wrap and stay the box.

13. The method of preparing a tabbed wrapper and applying it to a composite box which comprises, adhesively securing tabs to the box-engaging face of the wrapper across corner notches thereof,in any sequence, or simultaneously, applying adhesive to the boxengaging faces of the wrapper and tabs, and applying the wrapper to said box with said tabs attaching the components thereof and with the bridging portions of the tabs overlying trihedral corners of the box formed by separate components thereof.

14. The method of preparing. a tabbed wrapper and applying it to a composite box which comprises, adhesively securing tabs to the box-engaging face of the wrapper, each tab being secured to and extending beyond the portion thereof destined to engage the bottom of a box, in either sequence, or simul taneously, applying adhesive to the box-engaging faces of the Wrappers and tabs, and in any sequence, or simultaneously, effecting engagement between unattached components of the box and respective wrapper panels with the tabs overlying at least bottom corners of the box.

15. The method of preparing a tabbed wrapper and applying it to a composite box which comprises, adhesively securing tabs to the box-engaging face of the wrapper, each tab being secured to and extending beyond the portion thereof destined to engage the bottom of a box, in either sequence, or simultaneously, applying adhesive to the box-engaging faces of the wrappers and tabs, and in any sequence, or simultaneously, effecting engagement between unattached components of the box and respective wrapper panels, at least a portion of each of said tabs connecting adjacent, unattached box components.

16. The method of preparing a tabbed wrapper and applying it to a composite box which comprises, adhesively securing tabs to the box-engaging face of the wrapper, each tab'extending across and beyond the portion thereof destined to engage the bottom of a box, in either sequence, or simultaneously, applying adhesive to the box-engaging faces of the wrappers and tabs, and in any sequence, or simultaneously, effecting engagement between unattached components of the box and respective wrapper panels.

17. The method of preparing a tabbed wrapper and applying it to a composite box which comprises, adhesively securing tabs to the box-engaging face of the wrapper. each tab extending across and beyond the portion thereof destined to engage the bottom of a box, in either sequence, or simultaneously, applying adhesive to the box-engaging faces of the wrappers and tabs, and in any sequence, or simultaneously, effecting engage ment between said components of the box and respective wrapper panels, the central portion of each of said tabs connecting separate box components.

18. A tabbed wrapper having bottom, side and end panels, with corner-notches between the end panels and the turn-in sections of the side panels, and tabbing structure bridging the gaps formed by the cornernotches.

19. A tabbed wrapper having bottom, side, and end panels and tabs applied thereto, each of which is in position to overlie edges formed by intersection of the sides of the box witheach other and the box bottom and corners formed by the sides and bottom of the box..

20. A tabbed wrapper comprising panels adapted to engage the sides of a box and having turn-in flaps adapted to engage the ends of the box, and tabs extending substantially across the wrapper, each engaging a pair of turn-in flaps of said panels. v

21. A tabbed wrapper comprising panels each adapted to engage the side of a box and extend over the top edge thereof into the interior of the box, and tabs each extending box fabricating station, and at said station manipulating said wrapper to attach said component to separate, complementary box structure in position to form a box with the tab structure overlying at least edges and .corners formed by said component and the complementary box structure.

23. The method of forming a composite box which comprises, adhesively securing to a box component adapted to form the bottom and side walls of a box, continuous strips of tabbing material extending across and projecting in part beyond opposite sides of said component, feeding the component and attached tabbing strips to a box fabricating station, and at said station, effecting box-forming position of said component and separate, unattached end wall components and manipulation of the projecting tab portions to attach said components and overlie box edges and corners formed thereby.

24. A composite box comprising a box component forming the bottom and side walls,

separate box components in non-adhesive abutting engagement with said first component and forming the end walls, and a tabbing strip at each end of the box connecting the first component to the corresponding end wall component and overlying the box edges and corners formed thereby. I

25. A composite box comprising a box component forming the bottom and side Walls, separate box components in non-adhesive abutting engagement with said first component and forming the end walls, and tabbing structure overlying the corners and edges at each end of the box to attach said first component to the respective end component and to reinforce the'box edges and corners formed thereby.

ERNEST G. RIDER. 

